This resource aids developers and designers in creating environmentally friendly residential landscapes. It emphasizes sustainable practices in landscape planning and management, enhancing ecological diversity while conserving resources. A sustainability checklist helps assess environmental impacts throughout the design process, applicable to various developments.
Nigel Dunnett’s gardens and landscapes have lifted the spirits of city dwellers for decades. They are beautiful, uplifting places that resonate with the energy of the natural world and stop us in our tracks. But how does he achieve these plantings with their successional waves of colorful perennials, elegant grasses, and pollinators at work with so few demands on irrigation and other natural resources? In this book he shares his inspiration, philosophy and working methods. He puts his own particular style of naturalistic planting in historical context, teaches us how to read wild plant communities and understand how they behave in garden situations. Finally he shares his plant selection, which includes trees and shrubs as well as perennial and annual meadow plants, and implementation techniques in a neat planting design toolkit.
Green roofs are a hot topic, and one that constitutes a trend extending well beyond the world of gardening. This sourcebook brings together a fascinating amount of data, covering the actual logistics of how to implement plantings on roofs and building facades
Naturalistisches Pflanzdesign ist eine spannende Alternative zur traditionellen Gartengestaltung. Reich an Pflanzen, nachhaltig und gut für die Umwelt, sind naturalistische Gärten schöne, aufbauende Orte, die auf eine Gefühlsreaktion im Betrachter abzielen. In diesem Buch teilt Nigel Dunnett, Pionier dieses Ansatzes, sein Wissen und seine erfolgserprobten Arbeitsmethoden mit Ihnen. Lernen Sie, wie man in naturnaher Weise mit Pflanzen arbeitet, um emotional ansprechende Gärten zu schaffen, an denen man sich das ganze Jahr über erfreuen kann! Viele Fallstudien und Abbildungen verdeutlichen Dunnetts Konzept des natürlichen Pflanzens und helfen, natürlich anmutende Pflanzungen selbst umzusetzen.